Earlier this week, Ukrainian forces knocked out a Russian data center and basically all conservative/fascist posting online evaporated. Dads and uncles across the United States are waking up from their MAGA fugue states and demanding Trump be imprisoned. Over in Germany the slavic hologram concealing Hitler's Russian ancestry just shut down and now the AfD is in full retreat. The veil is lifted, the West is pure once again.

Since TrueAnon is a movie podcast now, I wanted to share some thoughts on Digger, which I saw this afternoon.

I liked this movie a lot. The multiple levels of narrative construction worked well together - the plot line of Cruise’s off-stage character really deepened the contradicting realities on-screen. The multi-step reveal was paced well.

John Goodman’s face is magic. Michael Stuhlbarg is very funny. Cruise burns it down. Hüller and Ahmed are good. Digger Rockwell feels like a character from the Spider Network series.

I don’t understand criticism that this movie is “annoying.” They’re in a play - theater acting is annoying! It’s not even annoying, it’s just over the top and exaggerated and ludicrous.

It’s fun! It’s very silly. It’s visually stunning, formally inventive, and has great performances. I found it ultimately very poignant! That last shot of Cruise suspended in the “water” gave me goose bumps. 4.5/5.

Tell me fellow gumshoes and diggers, what did you think?

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Oh and she's also a child-beating advocate and a "development partner" at a nazi bookstore.

The nazi bookstore thing is an interesting little follow-up for those of us who remember when Michael Gove was revealed to have a bunch of hardcore white nationalist/identitarian bullshit on his shelves and all the papers settled on "well, *I* have a copy of Mein Kampf, am I cancelled too now???"

The CSAM thing is an interesting little follow-up for those of us who remember when Michael Gove blocked an inquiry into historical allegations of pedophilia in Westminster.

This started circulating on Bluesky on Sunday afternoon when Henry Mance, UK news editor of the Financial Times, posted screenshots of Daily Mail articles reporting on both the split and her charges. Then he deleted that post sometime on Monday.

More detailed rundown

RIP RJ !!

Is this bullshit harassment or will she be the first in a long line of people that will have their naturalization stripped away and deported?

(There are of course way worse things happening right now but I can still be bummed about this)

11 PM Records, arguably the best hardcore punk label on the planet for the past several years, is shutting down due to tariffs. The tariffs don’t affect vinyl records directly, but I guess being an American label run from Canada has made it exceedingly difficult for them to operate. This shit is going to leave an enormous hole in one of the few things I still enjoy.

Nothin but net, flawless discography. Pour one out.

https://11pmrecords.bandcamp.com/album/some-kind-of-war

Pictured (Photo credit: Raytheon)

A couple of days ago I saw some comment around the idea/possibility of tucker and the entire dissident right actually being cia backed but backed by a specific faction of it that no longer backs israel/believes the entire middle eastern/eastern europe front has gotten way too expensive for the empire/is jealous of mossad's power and influence and want to only focus on what they consider an actual threat to the empire (china/pacific theatre/return to turn latin america into full blown colonies to stop chinese influence/etc). It would make sense since the entire cia elites/rulers of the west aren't a monolith and they likely have their own subgroups and specific interests. As well the entire dissident right seems to have had a precursor called the "arabists", which were basically cia commandos in the early 50s/60s that didn't really like israel as they considered they would deestabilize the region too much and rather backed the arab dictators/kings of the time instead. Wanted to ask if anyone knows more evidence that has to do with this entire idea, closest thing I found was some max blumenthal/dropsite tweet about some pro israel usa shill whining that his son in law had been questioned by us intelligence over trying to hide american deaths on the west bank. If this all manages to come into fruition though it may very will be the real end of the empire, elites can't agree to shit

This Indigenous Peoples' Day / Columbus Day, some comrades and I are taking part in the benevolent practice of prairie burning, and killing lots of escaped "old world" invasive plants. Just one way to physically decolonize land.

In the old history texts about our region, there's lots of anecdotes about settlers waking in the middle of the night to prairie fires lit by the original inhabitants. Anyhow, here's to "carrying the flame" for this continent's original stewards.

Obviously, there's a lot of work to do on this front... This is just what I'm trained in. Looking forward to oceans of native grass and forbs come springtime!